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b&W G3 question: help!!
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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Hi,
I have an old (and soon to be retired) B&W G3/400 machine, the kind with a built in zip drive
In prep for the upgrade, I tried to copy some stuff off my zip disks to archive it, but now I find the Zip disk is stuck, and that there's no manual eject button! I opened up the case, and can't even see how to remove the drive without taking apart a lot of stuff. At this point. the disk isn't even being seen by my machine.
Any ideas how to solve this would be most welcome.
Thanks in advance.
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Did you try holding down the mouse button at startup? It might work for Zip disks, I've never tried it.
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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i dont think its that hard to remove the drive. i think the part that covers the drive snaps off from the inside.
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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Originally posted by egghead:
Hi,
I have an old (and soon to be retired) B&W G3/400 machine, the kind with a built in zip drive
In prep for the upgrade, I tried to copy some stuff off my zip disks to archive it, but now I find the Zip disk is stuck, and that there's no manual eject button! I opened up the case, and can't even see how to remove the drive without taking apart a lot of stuff. At this point. the disk isn't even being seen by my machine.
Any ideas how to solve this would be most welcome.
Thanks in advance.
There is button hidden by the bezel to the right. It is an actual button that you can use to manually eject the zip disk. Unless the drive is really broken, pressing the button should eject the zip disk. You need to be powere up to do this (I think, not sure anmore as its been a long time. I rarely use the drive anymore since I started using CD-RW like most)
I have a Blue and Whte G3 350
now a G4 600, 768 ram, with 4 hds and 2 optical drives)
10.2.4
hope that helps 
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Nothing to add concerning the wise hints on ZIP drives previously posted.
You might wish to consider networking the old and the new machine.
You will win faster copy performance and more reliable backup media as the new machine will have a CD-burner.
ZIP is both antique and  inferior technology.
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Actually, it seems that the disk and drive both work under OS 9.2 -- but 10.2.4 doesn't even see the drive (not visible in system profiler).
Does OS X break the Zip drive? It's been so long since I used it that I can't remember if it ever worked or not.
Thanks.
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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No OS X does NOT break the Zip drives or the media. However, if you formatted the disks or saved data to them while running a pre-OS 9.1 system, OS X may or may not read them. I have alot of the disks, and some of them are still readable, while others are not. Even the emergency OS 9.2.2 boot disk that I made w/ the Iomega tools app still works under 10.2.4........
HTH 
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some older internal zip drives don't have the pinhole hardware eject. i've seen this with my own eyes on a uni computer when my disk wouldn't eject. the tech was as confused as me but pulled the disk out with pliers.
i don't know if the drive worked before the stuck disk but it didn't after. the disk was fine though.
i second the suggestion of coping over the network (is a cross-over cable a 'network'?  )
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